[airspirit]

You are right: there is no time. Think of it this way: each infinitely small moment is just a flash frame of existance and is a reality in and of itself, related to each alternate reality (time) that comes before and after. In reality, the future and the past are both the present, though our consciousness is stuck in a temporal progression through the 4th dimension (d4).

In reality, once the root of events is resolved, everything reacts to everything else in a certain way. This forms a large and looming equation ... or as the media puts it, "THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING". This theory, in my opinion, is the closest thing to GOD that there is. Through this equation's progression and regression you can travel forward and backwards through time to each previous step, and likewise you could accurately predict the future.

Now, there is one sticky point when you get down to the root of all of this, and that is caused by quantum mechanics as described by Heisenberg's theory, IIRC. Since each reaction on the quantum level takes a binary path, and these reactions (parallel manifestations of the equation) are impossibly large, you can imagine that there are near infinite possibilities for each of the time slices I described above, though this number IS finite, started at one point, and eventually must terminate at one point of regression as well.

Since each parallel moment must be accounted for, time and space must be finite, and since the equation was exponentially propogated in the beginning, is must be exponentially reduced in the end back to one thread. The sum total of everything must remain ZERO.

What does this say about predestination, fortune telling, and such? If one was to divine this equation and had the ability to propogate it forward through time taking into account the whole of existance on that parallel thread, they would be able to tell the future perfectly, uncertainty principle be damned, since each possible reality would split at the time of prediction. In other words, once the box that may or may not contain the living cat is opened, then reality is determined and written for that thread, so the one that finds the live cat will be in the live cat reality while another finds a dead cat and his reality is affected as such.

Anyway, as for the comment on infinity, there is no such thing except as a logical structure for our understanding. There is always a terminator in every equation except when you are estimating, such as fining limits and such in early calculus (as an example). The reason is because everything in the universe must balance to ZERO for existance to exist ... you should have learned the rationale in chemistry or physics for that ... thermodynamics demands it. If there were infinite measurements of any reality or dimension, then this would be an impossibility. Similarly, no equation can propogate to infinite threads and magically shrink back to nothing. To assume so would be to deny thermodynamics.

The meaning of our existance can be summed up in one piece of what boils down simply to machine code. In the beginning, there was a hiccup in an existance incomprehensible to us, and this hiccup was the equation: everything else that has or practically could exist bubbled immediately from that and simmered down to nothing. We exist only in the sense that we can't comprehend the the dichotomy that we both do and do not.

Does that make any sense? Everything that you have done and will do is predetermined. You can learn to live with that and accept it, or you can become fatalistic. I hope that doesn't depress you too much.